Designed as a comprehensive solution for organizing, editing, and exporting photos, Photoshop Lightroom 6 from Adobe is an all-inclusive, non-destructive environment suitable for all aspects of post-production. Seeing enhancements in performance and range of features, the sixth edition of Lightroom includes a pair of Merge modes, HDR and Panorama, for seamlessly compositing multiple images together to increase dynamic range or the overall field of view of photographs, respectively. Facial Recognition technology is now employed to help organize and access your photos of people quickly, and overall updates to the performance of the program accelerate processing and enhancement speeds. Rounding out the post-production workflow, this edition of Lightroom also allows you to create advanced video slideshows of your imagery and produce HTML5-compatible web galleries for sharing your work in more dynamic ways.

The range of features unique to Lightroom 6 serve to complement the already impressive set of tools found in previous iterations of Lightroom, including Smart Previews for working with your photos while offline from your library, rich metadata editing capabilities, Develop presets for applying one-click effects to imagery, an Advanced Healing Brush for intelligently retouching photos, and a wide assortment of sharing and exporting options.

Lightroom 6 is compatible with both Mac and Windows operating systems and is delivered here on a DVD.

Unique Features for Lightroom 6

Editing, Sharing, and Performance Enhancements

HDR Merge is a seamless means for compositing multiple exposures within a single frame in order to achieve an extended dynamic range with greater shadow and highlight detail. This tool helps to align sequentially recorded frames and average the exposure values from each to produce natural or surreal effects.

Panorama Merge aids in stitching together several files, including raw images, in order to create wide field of view panoramas. This tool helps to maintain a high degree of detail and prevent unwanted distortions and gaps or overlaps between frames.

Facial Recognition is a unique solution for sourcing photos of specific people without the use of metadata, tags, or keywords. By selecting one face from a photo, Lightroom 6 can search for images of that same person throughout your library for categorizing and grouping.

The updated Advanced Video Slideshows function helps to create a polished, multimedia presentation of your photos, videos, and music, which can be further enhanced through the use of visual effects, such as pan and zoom.

For sharing your work online, HTML5-compatible web galleries can be created to showcase your photos in a more elegant and interactive way that are compatible with most desktop and mobile browsers.

A dedicated Filter Brush offers more precise control as to which areas of your image are affected when using Graduated or Radial filters. The brush can be used to adjust the filter's mask and add or subtract the effects from specific portions of the frame.

Performance enhancements throughout Lightroom 6 offer increased speed and make full use of compatible graphics processors to expedite importing, processing, and exporting tasks, especially in regard to the Develop module.

Organize and Work Efficiently

Smart Previews

Smart Previews permits working with your imagery without having to bring your entire image library with you. By generating smaller, more portable stand-in files of your full-size imagery, you can apply adjustments and update metadata and then automatically apply these edits to the larger originals at a later time.

Develop Presets

Develop settings can be saved as presets for instantly applying your favorite looks to photos with a single click. In addition to creating your own, dozens of presets are pre-installed and thousands more are available from third parties.

Other Features

Location-based photo organization

Import libraries from other software applications

Extended video editing support

Image watermarking

Cross-platform 64-bit support

Multiple monitor support

Offline photo management

Batch application of development settings

Adobe Photoshop integration

Manage and refine several images at once

DNG and raw file conversion

Single or group metadata stamping

File renaming

Advanced search and sort

Simple or customized keywording

IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata editing

Import and export presets

Metadata stamp on import

Advanced Editing Capabilities

Advanced Healing Brush

The Advanced Healing Brush can be used to quickly fix image defects, such as dust or spots, as well as cleanly remove any unwanted objects within the photo. Updated control allows you to quickly remove oddly-shaped items, such as threads or splotches, without affecting the main subjects of an image.

Upright

Upright allows you to straighten tilted images with a single click by analyzing and detecting skewed horizontal and vertical lines. This function works even when the horizon line is obscured or hidden.

Radial Gradient

The Radial Gradient tool enables you to create off-center vignette effects or multiple vignetted areas within a single image for easily drawing attention to specific portions of the frame.

Non-Destructive Environment

Lightroom is based within a non-destructive editing environment that lets you experiment and adjust imagery without the fear of accidentally altering your original files. This makes it easier to reverse any unwanted edits or save multiple versions of the same image.

Advanced Black and White Conversion

When converting color images to grayscale, eight color channels can be used to gain complete control over tonal representation, as well as contrast and brightness.

Other Features

Highlight and shadow recovery

White balance brush

Additional adjustment brush options

Advanced noise reduction

Film grain simulation

Lens correction

Perspective correction and crop

Selective editing brush

Tracking of editing adjustments

Before-and-after comparisons

Simplified tone curve tools

Hue, saturation, and luminance editing

Intelligent sharpening

Dust-busting

Red-eye removal

Effortless Sharing and Exporting

Photo Book Creation

A variety of drag-and-drop, pre-designed book templates are available for streamlined creation of printed photo publications. Each of the templates can be edited for a more personalized look, and then uploaded to printing servers directly from Lightroom.

Online Sharing Integration

Photos can be shared directly to social media and photo sharing websites, such as Facebook and Flickr, from within the Lightroom interface. With select sites, online comments to your images can also be displayed within the Lightroom library alongside your files.

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